Looking southeast down Wilshire Boulevard at San Diego Way (right, out of view). Various businesses, including the May Co. store at Wilshire and Fairfax (left), are seen on both sides of the boulevard; storefronts are being added onto the Carthay Building (center). The Foster and Kleiser billboard right of center is advertising Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles. Photograph dated April 4, 1947. (Los Angeles Public Library)